Meta Character Encoding Not Detected

If I validate by Direct Input and paste the following code into the
validator:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>test</title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1"> 
</head>
<body>
testing
</body>
</html>

If I set encoding to "detect automatically" then the validator selects
utf-8 as the encoding despite the fact that I have set a meta tag
declaring it as iso-8859-1.  

If I set the encoding to iso-8859-1, then the validator issues a warning
that I'm overriding the detected character encoding of utf-8.

Received on Wednesday, 21 November 2007 00:52:40 UTC